Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Phone phreaking


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Phreaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a subculture of people who study, experiment with, or exploit telephones, the telephone company, and systems connected to or composing the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) for the purposes of hobby or utility.
The phone companies quickly caught on to the scheme and slowly deployed a number of systems to defeat it, but the phreaks felt that a true solution would be impossible because it would require adding hardware (a filter) to every line on every crossbar in the world.
The phreaked call was then completed and when the operator asked for payment the phreak would play back the recording of the sounds (including the physical sound of the coins being deposited into the coin box) into mouthpiece of the telephone for the benefit of the operator.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phreak   (2226 words)

  
 Phreaking - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Phreaking is a slang term for the action of making a telephone system do something that it normally should not allow—in the words of one former practitioner, "making the phone company bend over and grab its ankles".
The tools of the phone phreak are electronic devices known as boxes, originally the blue box, but later the fl box, red box, beige box and clear box and many others.
At the phone company central office, the lines were connected to a series of mechanical disks (stepping relays) that rotated one position for every "click", so seven such clicks would turn the disk seven positions.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /phreaking.htm   (2176 words)

  
 www.iGeek.com
Phreaks figured that one out, and just used large tables of hundreds of numbers in a scrambled order so the phone companies couldn't see a pattern (in stepping through that sequence) -- yet all valid numbers would still get checked.
A phreak names Captain Crunch, found that the tone created by a whistle found in a box of cereal generated a 2600 Hz tone -- which just happened to be the same tone that operators used to control the phone switches.
Phreaks took pride in being the worst spellers on the planet, and intentionally changed all 'f' to 'ph''s and vise versa.
www.igeek.com /articles/Security/Phreak.txt   (2783 words)

  
 [No title]
Phone phreaks have learned to beep out the codes which lead them to a verification operator, tell the verification operator they are switchmen from some other area code testing out verification trunks.
Phone phreaks who were just learning the game or didn't have M-F capability were boosted up to the conference by more experienced phreaks so they could get a glimpse of what it was like before it disappeared.
For them, for most phone phreaks in general, it was the discovery of the possibilities of loop-arounds which led them on to far more serious and sophisticated phone-phreak methods, and which gave them a medium for sharing their discoveries.
www.morehouse.org /hin/blckcrwl/telcom/phreak_m.txt   (19510 words)

  
 Collusion E-zine - Cellular Phone Phreaking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The cellular/mobile phone system is one that is perfectly set up to be exploited by phreaks with the proper knowledge and equipment.
Phreaks can take advantage of this by pretending to be mobile phone customers whose "home base" is a city served by a different BOC, known as a "roamer".
There are three general areas when phreaking cellular phones; using one you found in an unlocked car (or an unattended walk-about model), modifying your own chip set to look like a different phone, or recording the phone number/ID number combinations sent by other local cellular phones, and using those as your own.
www.collusion.org /Article.cfm?ID=387   (754 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When plugged into a line it emits a loud buzzing sound that anoys whoever is talking on the phone.
This is one of many of my drawers full of phreaking tools and half finished projects.
It also has only the bare minimum circuitry to listen in on a phone call, thus the voltage on the line is not dropped substantially, and not voltage diffrence can be detected.
www.angelfire.com /linux/the1   (501 words)

  
 Cellphone reviews
GPS phones can be pinpointed to a pacific area should you be lost or in need of assistance, long distance drivers and employers also find good use for these phones.
The phones on today’s market a very light weight compared to the large style from years ago, those of you who still use these type phones today should look at upgrading and come to terms with the technology of today.
Firstly the battery in the cell phone could be completely dead, secondly the recharge supply unit could have a problem and last of all it could be the cell phone itself, by eliminating the first two you could save yourself money.
cellphone.i3log.com /page2   (2376 words)

  
 phone phreaking cisco pix 501 - business ethics in news
phone phreaking low memory minimum too virtual It doesn t seem as important when looking at the table name from within Access, but when you are staring at 300 lines of code and trying to identify whether your code is correct, it makes things a lot easier.
phone phreaking HTML controls are only of little use in ASP programs because they can t be accessed from the server-side code.
Consider adding instructions for how to download the PDF file without the annoyance of having it open in the browser Unfortunately, this is solaris soundtrack phone phreaking When building dynamic applications, it is better to use a technique called form verification to ensure that the information the user has entered meets your requirements.
www.angelfire.com /ar3/dur/hacking/phone-phreaking.htm   (717 words)

  
 HackerStickers.com Phreaker Sticker Phone Phreaking Sticker
Phreaking was very active during the late 80's, Steve Jobs and Wozniak were making blueboxes and selling them.
Telephones communicate to the phone companies via tones, a red box could emulate the sound of a dime, quarter, and nickel as it dropped into the coin slot.
Beige boxing is one that still isn't outdated, this box or procedure requires a linemans handset or modified phone equipment, at that point you can hook directly up to the phone jack in back of a house or office as if you were inside the house and picked up the phone to make a call.
www.hackerstickers.com /products/sticker-phreaker.shtml   (222 words)

  
 The Origins of Phreaking
The phone on your wall is an amazingly simple device, yet the phone system on the other end of those wires is one of the most complex switching systems ever created.
When I was wiring a phone board in a building with 20+ phone lines, the ANAC number saved me a huge amount of time and trouble, and it saved a lot of calls to the operator, too.
A phone phreak would dial an 800 number, which would trigger the local exchange to connect an idle trunk line and tag the call as free.
www.robson.org /gary/writing/phreaking.html   (4136 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Phone phreaking encompasses a lot of things that people can do to modify or hack the phone system, sometimes giving very interesting results.
I got into phone phreaking when I was in middle school, it was a lot easier than computer hacking and I didn’t have to learn all those pesky programming languages.
One of the most popular activities in phone phreaking is called “Red Boxing.” First, let me explain in simplistic terms how a payphone works.
people.clarkson.edu /~fitzgerb/redbox.txt   (976 words)

  
 Phone Trips
Phone Tripper Frank Wilsey visited the Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum in Seattle, WA and the New England Museum of Telephony in North Ellsworth, Maine.
Phone tripper Joseph G. Molter (aka JeepMan), email jmolter@sbcglobal.net, took a trip to La Crosse, IN and made a recording from a payphone and from inside the switchroom.
My phone phreak friends in Los Angeles (and later in Seattle) wanted to hear this variety of phone noises I was telling them about, so I tape recorded by holding the microphone of the recorder against the earphones of the payphones.
www.wideweb.com /phonetrips   (2018 words)

  
 Wired 12.02: Three Blind Phreaks
The brothers' six-year spree of hacking into phone systems and hijacking telephone time ended when they were convicted of stealing credit card numbers and breaking into the Israeli army radio station's telephone system to set up an illicit phone company.
On the phone, the brothers morph into verbal 007s, intimidating men, seducing women, and wheedling classified information from steely-voiced security personnel.
The phone phreakers' term for this is social engineering: using a combination of brains and guile to obtain codes for trespassing into systems to rejigger them via strings of touch-tone code.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.02/phreaks.html   (1028 words)

  
 Phone Phreaking
At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers; there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo.
There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own through such media as the legendary "TAP Newsletter".
A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of `blue boxes' or any of the other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of yore.
www.telephonetribute.com /phonephreaking.html   (1074 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers: Hacking: Phreaking: Groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Phone Losers of Alaska - Where the PLA meetings are held, where to dumpster dive in the area and links.
Phone Losers of Arkansas (501) - Ringback, ANAC, and CNA numbers.
Phone Losers of Connecticut (860) - Pay phone numbers, 800 numbers, and text files on the colored boxes.
dmoz.org /Computers/Hacking/Phreaking/Groups   (234 words)

  
 PhoneFreaks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
History of Cap'n Crunch - one of the original phone phreakers.
Primarily we'll have belgian phone info - info on the various pstn companies (belgacom, telenet and bt), info on the different payphones in belgium (belgacom booths, bt, cocot's), and info on how to "extend their possibilities".
Phone Losers of Chicago - all about prank phone calls, computers, linux, and the Chicago H/P scene.
www.euronet.nl /users/jasmine/root/digitalunderground/phonefreaks.html   (344 words)

  
 Phone Phreaking is Back …
Phones will be more portable, allowing you to move your office or home phones across a building or across the country with complete number and feature portability.
On the downside, IP phone systems are vulnerable to many of the same issues and kinds of attacks commonplace on today’s data networks and Internet-connected computing systems.
In addition, because phones are the first link in emergency services (via 911 calls) and because businesses depend on phone systems for ordering and communications, any loss of dial tone can be costly to business––or even lives.
news.tmcnet.com /news/2005/oct/1190325.htm   (1932 words)

  
 SiTbWendy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
According to Webopedia (http://www.pcwebopedia.com) phone phreaking is hacking into phone lines to make calls free of charge or to charge the calls to another account.
With cellular technology, phreaks can now turn their phone into scanners and eavesdrop on other cellular conversations or to track all other phones on that network.
Cap'n Crunch) who came to phone phreaking fame in the 1970s by using the whistle given away in boxed of Cap'n Crunch cereal.
www.voght.com /cgi-bin/pywiki/pywiki?SiTbWendy   (339 words)

  
 cell phone phreaking, Miscellaneous, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
cell phone phreaking Cellular Phreaking The cellular/mobile phone system is one that is perfectly set up to be exploited by phreaks with the proper knowledge and equipment.
This process continues as long as the phone has power and is turned on.
If you can find that somewhere on the phone, you're in luck.
www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Miscellaneous/cell_phone_phreaking.shtml   (709 words)

  
 Other PLA Sites On The Planet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
California: Phone Losers of 661: This is a PLA site for the 661 areacode,which is the Bakersfield area.
Florida:352 Phreak: My goal is to group as many of you who live in the 352 area code together.
Massachusetts: Phone Losers of Massachusetts: This site is mainted by The Loser Punks and is a place for all phreakers and hackers of anywhere to go and laugh at my poor attempt to make friends.
www.phonelosers.org /state_list.php   (3517 words)

  
 Used phone system, nortel - Telephone Line Simulator
Includes Panasonic Phone System Features The SecurityLink Plus also features an are registered trademarks of ADT Services AG and are used under license.
The system and phones were overloaded; for subsequent terms the calls were 10 percent of the students used the Web and 90 percent used the phone.
The 'Emergency Red Phone System' is designed to provide communication Red Phones can be used during both normal service and emergency conditions.
nortel.allinfosites.com /q/nortel-used-phone-system.htm   (831 words)

  
 True Stories about Phone Phreaking - WARBUCKET FORUMS
I had been in another part of the building and rushed into the room just in time to hear the tail end of the conversation.
The phone company commented, "We don't really know how this happened, but it cleared right up!" Five years later, Santa Barbara replaced that old faulty equipment with newer electronic systems.
He expected to hear the phone ring again, but it didn't.
www.warbucket.com /ibforums/index.php?showtopic=11360   (1415 words)

  
 Phone Phreaking : Boxes and Box Plans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Attaches an Amplifier to the phone for obnoxiously loud speaking
Lets you know when a call is charging and when it is not under British Telephone
Connects two phone lines together so if you call one, you get the other's dial tone
www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Hardware/4996/phreak/boxes   (403 words)

  
 [No title]
Thus you could blow the whistle into the phone, trick the phone company into thinking you'd hung up, and start dialing and playing all kinds of other things without being billed.
You could make free phone calls to anywhere, and if you had a way of generating other tones, you could do even more to play with the system.
The old phone system did EVERYTHING with just a few simple tones, and none of them were difficult to duplicate.
memex.org /cm-archive4.html   (7780 words)

  
 HackersCatalog.com. Phone Phreaking!
Here You'll Find all the information we have on the Phone Phreakers Bible on CD-ROM.
700+ Zipped files and programs covering cellular and telephone phreaking, cloning and hacking.
Dialer programs, phone "box" text files (box construction) and a lot more.
www.hackerscatalog.com /Products/CD-ROMS/Phone_Phreakers.html   (49 words)

  
 T E X T F I L E S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
An Ode to The Phone, by Dippy Bird
Phone Frequencies by Iceman of the Banana Republic BBS
The Rulez of Phreaking by The Ripper (February 5, 1994)
www.textfiles.com /phreak   (4802 words)

  
 Wanna know the secret that fone psychics use? Caller ID   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Soon after that, we contacted some of the ladies in Oregon who were stalked by Curtis and managed to track down his home phone number.
South Carolina: Charleston, South Carolina 843-2600 Chapter: Mainly a page to give some info about the 843 Chapter of 2600 meetings among a few other things.
Mississippi: Phone Loosers of the 662: The old site has long since dissappeared, so im just trying to help phreaks find each other out in north mississippi.
www.phonelosers.org   (1485 words)

  
 NOKIA 5125 TRACFONE -- PHONE PHREAKING & HACKING FORUM
I would like to know any interesting tricks for the nokia 5125 such as free minutes or things i should not know about
Any info is appreciated,thank you.LONG LIVE THE PHREAKS!!!
>I would like to know any interesting tricks for the >nokia 5125 such as free minutes or things i should not >know about >according to the phone company.
www.voy.com /46057/293.html   (139 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.